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a very good evening this is r.t. you're watching our round up of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin owen here it r.t. h.q. in moscow tonight first well it was the big story of the week the world was wide died this week over dramatic images from central russia plunging b.t.o. exploding with a blinding flash before crashing in the urals at the start on friday not hard to imagine the shock felt by the region's residents without going on the blinding flash the noise windows being blown in to people while of course to try to work out what exactly was happening somewhere before war broke out ok well across this story now it's eagle piskun office take a look. it

was like a scene from a scythe or a movie but with one exception it was real first the brilliant flash this big bright like he was shining across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun the skies were lit up by a meteor streaking across the skies above the russians. or want to marry half thousand kilometers east of moscow where not just unusual glare on the floor i thought of all lights from a car then we went to the window saw this strange cloud and then. and then this. would turn around and the wall was a gun and someone had moved it this use of massive explosions rocked the entire city damaging buildings and shattering windows. nasa said the explosive force of the media or breaking up was the equivalent of two one to hear oshima bombs over twelve hundred people were injured including over two

hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass. the windows just exploded i saw one girl he had and a bring his hand we were told to quickly put our clothes this on and run out so many were able to film the other three phenomenon later flooding the web footage as rumors spread of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the and of the world would miss as we reported seeing fragments of the crashing all across the region. i saw a small can there was a weird smell but it was not a fire so i think it's a piece of me to write a nice small during them know however most of the sighting started out to be ordinary peed bug fires because so far officials have not found any fragments of the meteor for now the immediate priority. he's to look after the injured and repair the damage to buildings especially the broken windows in schools and

residential areas as sara bridger's a married drop below minus fifteen celsius is going to take time to clear everything else but for now science like this collapsed factory or a clear reminder no matter how diverse technology gets nowadays often when it comes soon each year we can only watch helplessly and hope for the best. parties ego piskun or for the urals there while the dramatic strike far that reaction almost instantly online there's so much of it the video being shared and bloggers speculating artie's lindsay france has been keeping an eye on the web responses legacy thick and fast work there not surprisingly of course and some strange ones too yeah a lot can be found online right now pretending this media are as you might imagine from the really factual to the outright outrageous including president putin harnessing the power of the media and writing it to earth i am in the news room catching up as much as i can on stuff like this i'll be in the studio with you more

on that in just a couple of minutes good stuff thank you we'll see in a bit now the meantime one startling aspect of this is that despite the huge size of the meteor no one seemed to see it coming it really shed some light on that side of the story that potentially alarming for us all of the future. you may wonder why the scientists haven't seen this thing coming after all it was quite a doozy was really large as a matter of fact bugs at the same time the scientists are saying that there's way too many things flying out there in outer space and although this one was a big one they can't really keep track of everything that's coming but seriously this thing weighed more than ten thousand tons when it was approaching earth or so the scientists say of course what it entered the atmosphere a mind blowing speed of thirty kilometers per second that's really really fast when it entered the atmosphere it broke into several pieces and those went scattering all over the region this is the region that we're actually concerned with but it actually went all around the place we're only going with what the scientists and

the emergency ministries are saying and they're saying that this icy pits is not anything for is not something for ice fishing as a matter of fact this is a crater where the fragment one of the fragments has fallen but again they haven't found any fragments of the meteor there so i guess we only have to take their word for it course we have to understand that this actually has been the biggest thing to hit this planet in over a century or so the scientists believe the last time something like this happened was in one thousand nine hundred eighty two when the door crash landed somewhere in siberia destroying thousands of square kilometers of forest causing acid rains to fall causing me to asians and plants and forests but it's also one of the biggest mysteries in the universe because nobody has ever found a crater from the meteor no no fragments of the meteor have been found so this is kind of a big mystery that a lot of people of are trying to cash in on this even even today

a hundred years later but back to reality back to present day to live in a region of course there has been plenty of damage you have seen the pictures of the damage to plants and buildings but actually. a lot of people are saying it could have been a lot worse if history is any indication there are two. networks operative massive us that was cosmos and russia the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect it's rock and asteroids but honestly there's a lot of it there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter or kilometers you. could potentially you know due to what happened to the dinosaurs and another thing to have been scraped in is actually something of a nuclear hotspot in russia in fact during the soviet era this was the place for nuclear research so it has at least seven nuclear facilities that are located in

the region and a lot of people are saying that if at least one of them was hit with one of the fragments from an asteroid we would have been dealing with complications infinitely worse than we're having on our hands right now we would be dealing with a nuclear disaster but thankfully that did not happen and although this entire event was rather frightening and quite damaging still things could have been a lot worse and it's a good thing that everything turned out the way it did. reporting there was a big sort of this meteor blast went viral because with lindsay from suggest a minute or two to see exactly what came in and out as they say it's a little when the blows nobody any good there's always somebody willing to cash it in there for and they'll say some even troy selling what they claim to fragments of the crush of the most expensive was on offer i don't know whether anyone took it up was an offer for ten thousand dollars of course if it was going to be an interest and so you'd have no way of setting out a way to see if it was tested it was actually

a right for me to you could just been sent something from somebody. so i think you'd be very avoids to part with your money for the lives of frauds but was one bizarre. do you know did anyone actually spend ten thousand dollars on you know i have no idea but i would really like to see that sample of rock they spent that kind of money what else we got for this is pictures just yes the twitter sphere is blowing up the internet is just chock full of funny outrageous just odd things people are posting with maybe a little too much time on their hands you know all this video is great and wonderful but then you hit twitter and you see posts like this tanks are passing down the streets citizens are urged to get out of the shelters lunchbox handouts parliamentary ranch only if the end you realized ok this is not really happening this is not the same guy sits there and starts tweeting about what's happening in town saying we're being given chemical protection and gas masks the city is almost entirely evacuated we're setting up barricades and in islam you know we're joking about the power of these things i mean it was a frightening event if you didn't know what was happening at the time if you're

reading this it could spread it would startle you as you well know why is he why does it have so much time to tweet about all of this happening and then i you got you got to did nearly funny stuff to the citizens of chile i've been scar already checking to see which superpowers they have god knows and you know the radiation from the explosion may have caused them to have extra to bring someone to mars what on earth for when you come to our local weather reports it's negative seventeen degrees celsius in chelyabinsk there's wind and a slight meteor but our schools. yeah but really when you say really i'll get i think so ok and then you know who is the guy who you know it's that one liner that happens on valentine's day pluck a star from the sky who is that you know what who promised to pick a star from the sky on valentine's day you're certainly going to mean that in a team of course and then you've got people from all over you know english speaking countries tweeting about breaking news baby found in the middle of the media right crush that he's miraculously unharmed wrapped in what seems to be

a red cave an allusion to superman if you give you get that i got mad when i saw that thought that was nice and then of course you've got the photo shop action angry birds flying in on the tail of the media are coming and then you get the rush or bruce willis popular boy are going around the world started to watch this stuff killed my brother please don't laugh. as years ago yes you never know you got to have remained in what's going to get you just norsk in iraq right over there russia from the united states shield karate hero. because you know you're going to go after where these friends are not well and then of course you couldn't get out of our of the rocket down to the crash site as he does you know as you do i think i think that's nice excellent lots of photos of support and also we've got one as well a football fan was over in britain for a couple of this one football for a speculating over that much for three rushes in the evening glynn's it up. just a day before he said it could be read snow for me to you or

a meteor shower would come down and hey what did he know that we didn't when i saw this i was thinking you know what i want to know when the red snow is because that game and the earth strike i mean come on city whatever no if the events come to a major from a legal move thank you very make them. let's move on to some other news now the volatile situation in bahrain has been exacerbated by the latest clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces this weekend scores reportedly injured riot police used tear gas and stun grenades against demonstrators throwing stones and petrol bombs violence broke out when the protesters tried to make their way to the funeral of a teenager who was allegedly killed by security forces earlier this week during a rally marking two years of the anti-government uprising that instant and the term or which followed has jeopardized talks in between the sunni dominated government

of the mostly shiite opposition which are still activists say there are no signs of progress all pending reforms we're looking at two years in which we've seen no reform we've seen nothing change i mean we started this uprising two years ago and on that day the first martyr of the uprising was killed and now two years later on the same day. another teenager has been killed and this means shows and displayed the love for continuous human rights the continuous repression taking place on the streets of bahrain it's good that dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that you know this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put dine in jeopardy within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply want to please the international community to say look we're having this dialogue and there is not a great thing was continuing the violations on the street. libya is also marking

the second anniversary of its anti-government uprising putting security forces on high alert later this hour we'll take a look at why the ousting of moammar gadhafi though brought no radical change. examine that a lot more coming your way right after this break. with . its technology innovation called a list of elements from around russia. the future covered. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

again good of you with us here about. borders closed international flights suspended security forces on high alert that's how libya is marking two years since the beginning of the uprising that resulted in the bloody civil conflict foreign intervention and the toppling of the longtime leader moammar gadhafi he's innocent now explains why any celebrations are being overshadowed by desperation with the

current government and fears of more rest. from all going off he has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave the shoot at their feet is impossible to imagine a future for libya with get daffy still in power it must. well gadhafi is long gone and we don't need to imagine but can take a close look the revolt which began in benghazi was followed by an eight month nato bombing campaign costing thousands of lives and left libya torn apart drowning in conflict and suffocating in stagnation still rich in oil libya economically is a mess despite rampant unemployment and an overwhelming housing crisis huge construction projects are on hold and violence reigns if you look at the country

before the bombardment and the invasion by nato and nato supported militias. the country now you can clearly see that the country is suffering from the front problems the not exist before the country's infrastructure has been destroyed and you have militias running. freely on the streets. people killing people and doing whatever they want so yes a lot has changed but not for the better amnesty international describes tribalism post gadhafi as armed militias acting completely out of control hundreds of them across the country arresting people without warrant detaining them incommunicado and torturing them all these points gadhafi was accused of by the rebels and the west now the watchdog says this is happening while the government is unwilling or unable to rein the militias in another problem is the south in december libya

closed off its borders without niger chad and sudan citing a deterioration of security and declared the region a military zone well recently a video has emerged of representatives of the south libyan tribes declaring independence for the region the federation of south libya they claim the government has failed to secure the inside of the country and borders and this is a result of stalled economic activity and discontinue a. and of essential infrastructure projects that have been driven by international partners well it's still not clear how that news is being taken in tripoli but it cambodia well for any chance of stability and finally who is reaping the fruits of this revolution well some analysts say it's an economic powerhouse putting lots of money into the region that the west just doesn't have while at the same time benefiting from their military efforts it's china the chinese have no boots on the

ground they have no more abuse they're. getting a free ride from the military. the west countries like so two years after the revolution for libya the only certainty is still gadhafi is gone we vote to check out our website for more analysis of the consequences of nato by a great change in libya much more than a comma. during a state of the union speech president obama said america needs to boost its help for libya and its neighbors to bring security to the rest of region defending its counterterrorism framework he talked about the fate of arab spring countries and outlined plans to end america's afghanistan military mission to by the end of next year more than for marty's gone a teacher can in washington in his state of the union speech president obama outlined some of the external threats that the country spacing first of all paired spreading to different parts of the world for what he said although the u.s. is pulling troops out of afghanistan america's war on terror will continue to

listen it's true different al qaeda affiliates in extremist groups have emerged from the reagan peninsula to africa the threat these groups pose is evolving. but to meet this threat we don't need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad occupying other nations we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the greatest threat to america although there was no mentioning of the word drone everyone knew that's what the president meant when saying direct with no u.s. troops involved what he did not talk about was the limits for this war that is waging with a remote control the justification that the administration gave john brennan's words we don't punish people for past strike before they take action that offers a very broad scope for the use of drones to afghanistan president obama wants to leave some troops on the ground twenty fourteen when they're supposed to be all out

in the speech you mentioned ongoing negotiations with the afghan government on that issue and it's going to be a hard bargain because the afghan government wrists further spearing anger of their own population over foreign military presence one could sense a change maybe even a concern as the president on the results of the revolution in the arab world he said it's quote unquote messy he said the u.s. cannot dictate the course of changing countries like very very briefly pressure on syria there was a change of tone remember how the u.s. was cheerleading for revolutions in those countries just a year ago with radical forces gaining momentum in places like syria like maybe the changes that we've now in the region are not much to their liking among other threats america faces the president talked about cyber attacks he said he had issued an executive order to protect government agencies and key infrastructure

from cyber attacks but he did not mention is how the u.s. government itself is carrying out cyber attacks like the reported cyber attack on iran's nuclear program. that they're building in this administration said it would view a serious cyber attack a. yes the united states is an act of war but apparently when the u.s. carries out the attack it should not be seen as an act of war. but korea reportedly preparing for more atomic test despite widespread international fear after a detonating the third nuclear device on tuesday going on described the move as methodists shore up its national security and safeguard its sovereignty against what he called quote rages u.s. is still a safe and closed the test prompted warnings from washington and its allies of more sanctions looming than for the communist state as you faced independent you said it's a james call but says the timing of the latest move couldn't have been worse. to really i think going to fall into a lot of diplomatic pressure on china to use its leverage with north koreans and i imagine that officials in beijing must have known that this this was coming

probably in the next few days and it certainly is it couldn't have happened at a worse time internationally speaking it's the lunar new year in china so basically the entire country is on holiday and in the u.s. you there is no confirmed secretary of defense or central intelligence director so it's a very interesting time to throw that through into that the wild card of xi jinping we don't know much about him or how he's going to lead china and the fact that kim jong un is a relatively new leader as well you also have the new army government in japan and there's a lot of wildcards in this mix to see how this is going to shake out but i think on the question of china specifically if they have a lot of pressure that they can put on north korea. online if you where love gets in the way footballer wagner loves come clean on why he was always at his best on the pitch since the brazilian spent his major moscow club says too much time is spent between the sheets he's blaming dulness poor performance on the field and get the details online r.t. dot com plus a plan to build

a replica of the titanic safely recreate the transatlantic voyages because of some people offering more than a million dollars for a ticket find out how the ship builders there were planning to hope for the avoid the fate of its predecessor on line from. she could face a death penalty in a native afghanistan for converting from islam to christianity a young girl's been allowed to stay here in russia as a refugee after she was disowned by a family for changing your beliefs artie's within a culture never is on the story for us. real was born in afghanistan by me two thousand and eleven she and her family arrived in russia in a small town in the prone region in search of a better life her father pleaded for asylum but it was denied because there was no evidence that either he or his family were threatened with political religious or ethnic persecution by afghan authorities that was when rule was real heart breaking

story began while living in russia she started worshipping in local churches and last november converted from islam to christianity it was a friend of my brother who showed me. now i go to the local church i can still be allowed to stand with the priests are seeing i read the bible in arabic but i did it because everyone has a choice she says that for her father it was a betrayal here could not overcome her family flats leaving her behind quickly she realized she was old lone in an unknown country barely spoke the language and faced deportation but going back to have vanished down would mean aggers a-q. sion for recounting islam under the country's shari'a based law of gunnison is one of the most hazardous countries in the world for christians in early two thousand and eleven a video was circulated showing to be having a christian convert. by the muslim taleban there are many more similar

cases some christians are thankfully see from agassi q after international pressure others are not so lucky it's a problem that's hard to quantify where was already in a russian deportation center when she appealed to the authorities again as given her the chance to start a new life and find a job and hopefully leave behind the threat of being killed for changing her beliefs. international news in brief series of car bomb blasts in baghdad killed at least twenty eight hundred more injured explosions occurred in malay shiite areas of the iraqi capital and shoppers attended outdoor markets no groups yet admitted the attacks blast support the number of deaths in the region to more than two hundred fifty since the start of the year. in pakistan people have taken to the streets or must around better security from the government a day after eighty one residents were killed in the city of quitter protests have

been held in karate and islamabad saturday's attack was carried out by a sunni militant group an attack in the same city five weeks ago saw a huge blast in the snow that time it killed more than ninety. if you stay with us for some of the rest of the evening coming up next our special report on whether americans should stand by their constitutional right to gun ownership big news in the headlines lately you can follow that story from us coming up next. helicopters flying through the air the night rounds of assault rifle ammo popping as the choppers buzz over the land now this unique form of hell of terror is no longer restricted to those in vietnam in the middle east now.